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Tables are awesome and reliable across about 25 years of software across different vendors and development models... Pretty impressive, if you ask me. I'm choo

Tables are awesome and reliable across about 25 years of software across different vendors and development models... Pretty impressive, if you ask me. I'm choosing tables too. And CSS.

goto11 5y ago
Tables were never reliable as a tool for layout, since the rendering algorithm was never specified in detail. IE just tried to reverse-engineer Netscapes rendering, Mozilla reverse-engineered IE and so forth. Now if you add 1x1px spacer gifs, then you get more consistent control. But you also would have to be a masochist.